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I named this Australian indigenous as I Am an Aussie here and now but in reality it is for all the indigenous peoples of this planet as they are all the keepers of the land and held the sacred trusts passed down through the eons..

Many peoples now, of all colours and nations incarnated as white, black, pink, purple etc just to re-address the current imbalance and balancing past lives where they were the persecuted and the light is prevailing and all these truths being revealed clearly now.. Clearly we are all one at heart and the sooner we embrace oneness of heart the sooner we will all embrace unity and peace..
Rethinking Indigenous Australia's agricultural past - Bush Telegraph. It has long been thought that prior to white settlement, Indigenous Australians lived a nomadic, hunter-gatherer lifestyle.

Now some scholars argue that the first Australians practised forms of agriculture and aquaculture, writes Cathy Pryor. When explorer and surveyor Major Thomas Mitchell ventured into Australia’s inland in the early 1800s, he recorded in his journals his impressions of the landscape. Around him he noted expanses of bright yellow herbs, nine miles of grain-like grass, cut and stooped, and earthen clods that had been turned up, resembling ‘ground broken by the hoe’.

Mitchell, like other early explorers, noted what many white Australians would later overlook: there was evidence everywhere on this vast continent that Aboriginal Australians managed the land. Historians, writers and academics are now rethinking Australia's perception of Indigenous land management. ‘I think the skill in which Aboriginal people gathered food and resources is very well known.
Kookaburra - Native Symbols. Three kookaburras in a raintree Kookaburras are a well-known symbol of Australia, sometimes referred to as a laughing jackass.

Territorial birds, they remain in family groups until around four years of age.
Aboriginal Tent Embassy. The Aboriginal Tent Embassy is a controversial semi-permanent assemblage claiming to represent the political rights of Aboriginal Australians.

It is made up of a group of activists, signs and tents that reside on the lawn of Old Parliament House in Canberra, the Australian capital. It is not considered an official embassy by the Australian Government. History[edit]
From Little Things Big Things Grow Kev Carmody and Paul Kelly. Apology to Australia's Indigenous peoples. Indigenous Viewer Advice Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander viewers are advised that the following program may contain images and voices of people who have passed away.

The Speaker of the House (Hon Harry Jenkins MP): The Clerk. The Clerk: Government business notice number 1, Motion offering an apology to Australia's Indigenous peoples. The Speaker: Prime Minister. Prime Minister (Hon Kevin Rudd MP): Mr Speaker, I move: That today we honour the Indigenous peoples of this land, the oldest continuing cultures in human history.
First Footprints. Aboriginal dancer Djoli Laiwanga performs at a festival in Papua New Guinea. Aboriginal Perspectives Resources (with thanks to Anita Heiss) « LisaHillSchoolStuff's Weblog. As teachers know, the new Australian Curriculum includes three cross-curriculum ‘priorities’, one of which is Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories and cultures.

One of the science topics includes Year 2 students identifying toys from different cultures that use the forces of push or pull, and this made me wonder about traditional Aboriginal games and whether there was a concept of a ‘toy’ in nomadic lifestyles. I’ve read a few memoirs and a quite a few children’s books by ATSI authors but I don’t recall any of them referring to this topic at all.

Keen to include Aboriginal perspectives on this topic if possible, I contacted Dr Anita Heiss who is Adjunct Professor at the Jumbunna Indigenous House of Learning, at the University of Technology, Sydney. Many teachers will also know her as the author of My Australian Story: Who am I? Her most recent book is Am I Black Enough for You? Anyway, Anita generously gave her time to reply to my query with some suggested sites:

Friend or foe? Anthropology’s encounter with Aborigines. An Aboriginal colleague recalls: “When I started at university you would say ‘anthropologist’ and spit on the ground in disgust.

But no one explained what anthropology actually was.” For many Indigenous Australian scholars, and many scholars who identify as postcolonial, anthropologists are the enemy from the colonial past. As culpable as the murderers or mission managers, worse than the politicians and more devious than the overtly racist population, anthropologists are seen as wolves in sheep’s clothing, exploiting Aboriginal knowledge without accepting any mutual obligation.
ABC Online Indigenous - Interactive Map. Australian Aborigines spent 50,000 years isolated from the rest of us. Australia, Papua New Guinea, and Tasmania made up one of the first regions modern humans reached after leaving Africa some 50,000 years ago.

But, before Europeans arrived in the colonial era, did others follow? Some scientists have said the archaeological record hints at an influx of new people around 4,000 to 5,000 years ago from India. At that time, languages and stone tools changed significantly, and Australian wild dogs, dingoes, arrived. But geneticists found no evidence of such a migration in the Y chromosome of indigenous people living there today in a new study published Thursday in the journal Current Biology.

Y chromosomes, passed from father to son, represent only paternal lineages.
Stolen Generations—effects and consequences. Effects on those who were stolen Members of the Stolen Generations often suffer from a range of problems.

Searching for family. Aboriginal people of the Stolen Generations are still looking for their families [1]. This personal ad also documents that children were taken until the late 1970s. Loneliness.Low self esteem and feelings of worthlessness.Loss of identity.
Collaborating for Indigenous Rights 1957-1973. Overview Title: Investigating the changing rights and freedoms of Indigenous Australians, 1957-1975Topic: History, Civics and Citizenship, Society and Environment, Indigenous Studies, English, Media StudiesType: Curriculum materialsYears: 8-12 Key curriculum links: Time, Continuity and Change; Culture; Natural and Social Systems; Investigation, Communication and Participation, Thinking Processes and Communication Main purpose and content.

From Dispossession to Reconciliation. Research Paper 27 1998-99 John Gardiner-Garden Social Policy Group 29 June 1999 Contents Major Issues Introduction.

Stories of Stolen Generations. Koorie Heritage Trust. The Stolen Generations’ Testimonies - About Stolen Generations. About this Project The ‘Stolen Generations’ Testimonies’ project is an initiative to record on film the personal testimonies of Australia’s Stolen Generations Survivors and share them online.
Aboriginal languages will be a HSC subject from next year.
Aboriginal languages will become a new HSC subject from 2016 after a decade of planning. NSW Education Minister Adrian Piccoli announced the move on Monday, saying the new course would “help maintain this critical part of Aboriginal cultures”, Fairfax Media reports. Since 2005, students have been able to study Aboriginal languages from kindergarten to year 10. From next year, Year 11 and 12 students can also study the languages – a positive move, according to University of Sydney Indigenous education lecturer John Hobson.

“There are quite a few people who want to progress to studying it in their HSC, but that hasn’t been possible and now it is, so that’s a great thing,” Mr Hobson told Mamamia.
Lest We Forget.pages. Record your encounter with Cockatoo with the FREE worksheet you can download from the shop to print out or fill out as an interactive pdf! Cockatoo strutting about next to a river. The Australian cockatoo is either black with striking red or red and yellow tail feathers (the female also has yellow feathers on her head), or more commonly, white with a yellow crest. Both types represent powerful spiritual symbols in the Dreaming. The white cockatoo has been linked to the first death in one Dreaming (see Southern Cross).
David Unaipon Born. ON 28 SEPTEMBER 1872, David Unaipon was born on a modest indigenous mission on the banks of South Australia’s Lake Alexandrina, 80km south-east of Adelaide.

Today, the church at Point McLeay Mission (later named Raukkan) and Unaipon’s face both grace the Aussie $50 note. Beside them is Unaipon’s best-known invention – a modified design for shearing shears that changed the once circular blade to a straight one. It’s a design still used today. But, the shears were just one contribution among many. David was a polymath (someone with a wide or encyclopaedic knowledge). Indeed, he was a man with a vision akin to Leonardo da Vinci's. Several experiments in vertical take-off had already been made, unbeknownst to Unaipon.
Ngarra (c.1920-2008)
The following is an extended version of a tribute that was first published in Art Monthly Australia, Issue 216, Summer 2008, pp.42-43 Ngarra, Brring.nga and Wanda, 2005synthetic polymer paint on paper, 50 x 70 cm,
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Paul Kelly - From Little Things Big Things Grow. Australian Aboriginal History - Download Free Content from La Trobe University. SBS: First Australians. EPISODE 6 - A fair deal for a dark race EPISODE 6 - A fair deal for a dark race | Sunday 16 May at 8:30pm. The Miracle of Tea Tree Oil: 80 Amazing Uses for Survival. Gaye Levy, GuestWaking Times. “Wild Stones: Spiritual Discipline and Psychic Power among Aboriginal Clever Men” - by James Cowan. In any living tradition there must always be cultural exemplars who reflect a condition of primordiality which acts as a link between the natural and supernatural worlds. Such men (and occasionally women) possess certain qualities of behavior and, more properly, a presence that others may recognize as being distinctively different.

W.E.H. Stanner's words changed Australia.
Top 10 Aboriginal Bush Medicines. 'Dreamtime' and 'The Dreaming': who dreamed up these terms?
Aboriginal Astronomy. Australian Aboriginals May Have Bred with Mysterious, Previously Unknown Human Lineage – The Mind Unleashed. Researchers have just stumbled on a new, mysterious branch of humanity that was previously unknown.

Access VG1: Aboriginal Australians. Dreaming of the sky. Just as ecologists are increasing their understanding of the Australian environment through studying Aboriginal stories and talking to tribal Elders, so astronomers are beginning to appreciate Indigenous knowledge of the sky. When Macquarie University PhD student Duane Hamacher encountered Aboriginal Dreamtime myths involving fiery stars falling to Earth, he decided to see if he could track where these objects had landed. Following several leads, Duane surveyed remote areas of Australia using Google Earth—and discovered a meteor impact site at Palm Valley, about 130 kilometres southwest of Alice Springs. What Duane and colleagues from Macquarie’s Department of Earth and Planetary Science found when they visited Palm Valley was a bowl-shaped geological structure that could not have been formed either by erosion or volcanic activity.

Aboriginal astronomers: world's oldest?
Separate but unequal: the sad fate of Aboriginal heritage in Western Australia. Some Myths and Legends of the Australian Aborigines: How the Stars Were Made: Rolla-Mano and the Evening Star. Forgotten 1920s photos reveal insight into coastal Aboriginal people - 24/11/2015. WHY CAN'T BLACK PEOPLE LIVE MORE LIKE WHITE PEOPLE?
Official Website of International Bestselling Author James Cowan. The bone collectors: a brutal chapter in Australia's past. Remote Indigenous communities are vital for our fragile ecosystems. An Indigenous Activist Was Arrested Under the Australian Laws he’s Renounced. Aboriginal lifestyles could fix the hole in the heart of Australia. Theconversation. Theconversation. The Dreaming & Other Essays. Theconversation.

Sacred Texts - Australia. Contents · Singing the Land, Signing the Land. Exhibit 1 · Singing the Land, Signing the Land. Exhibit 2 · Singing the Land, Signing the Land. Exhibit 3 · Singing the Land, Signing the Land. Exhibit 4 · Singing the Land, Signing the Land. Exhibit 5 · Singing the Land, Signing the Land. Exhibit 6 · Singing the Land, Signing the Land. Canberra magistrate frees Indigenous 'trespasser' and queries charge. How can I feel Australian when this country has told me I don't belong?
The Little People of Kuranda. Have You Heard of The Great Forgetting? It Happened 10,000 Years Ago & Completely Affects Your Life. The government is asking you to blindly vote for changes in a referendum, without even clarifying the final wording. At Poisoned Waterhole creek I tell my son about the slaughter of our people.

The men of the Fifth World (full documentary)
Defying all statistics, he saved a generation of Aboriginal youngsters from ruined lives. Sovereign Union - First Nations Asserting Sovereignty. Could Mysterious Engravings of Ancient Egyptians in Australia Rewrite our History?